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The god Shiva is totally seduced by way of Mohini, the mesmerizing girl shape assumed through the god Vishnu throughout the churning of the sea for nectar. A barber employs wit and wile and rumours of witchcraft to win his spouse again from the lustful attentions in their king. The celestial nymph Urvashi curses the Pandava prince Arjuna while he rejects her sexual advances. a girl stuck in adultery befools her elders with a non secular ritual. a guy with a unpleasant lacking spouse insists however that she be recovered by means of his ruler who has an analogous challenge.

subtle, colloquial, romantic, cynical, satirical via turns, those tales of erotic love, elegantly translated from the Sanskrit classics, make a sustained argument for the secular ends of lifetime of wish tempered with discrimination and enjoyment with restraint.

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